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DECbot
A Discord bot that uses DECtalk text-to-speech (think Stephen Hawking or Moonbase Alpha).
DECbot
uses wine and the original DECtalk say.exe
to synthesize text from text chat into a voice channel. The bot offers a set of
commands allowing users to control how and where DECbot
synthesizes speech.
The bot can also take multiple commands at once, allowing multiple sounds and
voices to be played back at the same time.
say.exe
,
dectalk.dll
, and the dictionary, dtalk_us.dic
.DECbot
can synthesize text into different voice channels depending on the
command:
!dec talk <text>
plays the text back in the current voice channel.!dec tell <@mention> <text>
plays the text back in the voice channel of the
user mentioned.The presence of DECbot
can also be controlled (to minimize annoyance):
!dec quiet
stops the currently playing text immediately.!dec leave
forces the bot to leave its current voice channel.Both TTS commands run using the "Perfect Paul" voice with phonemes enabled (so
the bot can "sing"). Additional options can be specified as they would in a
normal say.exe
command: with brackets and a colon ([:command]
). For example,
DECbot
can talk as "Frail Frank" by starting the text with [:nf]
.
$ pip install decbot
The bot can also be run from source as a module. In the top level directory:
$ python -m decbot
A new Discord bot must be set up before the application can be run:
Next, to start the application:
Create a DECbot
configuration file. At minimum, this must have the bot
token
, and the path to the DECtalk executable, tts.bin
.
Get an invite link (the client
field must be specified in the config):
$ decbot --invite
Have the Discord server administrator add the bot. Note that it must be granted the ability to read and send text messages, and be able to view, join, and talk in voice channels.
Start the bot. The application looks for a configuration file in the same
directory called .decbot
. Specify a different path as follows:
$ decbot --config /path/to/my/config
To stop the bot, the application can be stopped from the command line, or
the owner can issue !dec quit
in the Discord server chat.
FAQs
a Discord bot that uses DECtalk text-to-speech
We found that decbot demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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